Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

Greg KH
2016-06-22T15:13:04Z

On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:02:14AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Kevin, hopefully this tree also helps you. I will also be adding some
> > email headers to my announcements of the -rc releases that you can
> > parse. Here is what they are going to look like for an example release:
> >
> > X-KernelTest-Patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.14-rc1.gz
> > X-KernelTest-Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
> > X-KernelTest-Branch: linux-4.4.y
> > X-KernelTest-Patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
> > X-KernelTest-Version: 4.4.14-rc1
> > X-KernelTest-Deadline: 2016-06-20T02:57+00:00
> >
> > Will those work out?
>
> Can you add one more: X-KernelTest-PatchCount ?
>
> Which would include the total number of patches in the series/branch?
> This will help us determine uniqueness for a given branch.

What do you mean by "uniqueness"?

As these are going to be the -rc releases, they will be unique from any
other -rc release.

confused,

greg k-h